Current and Upcoming
NOTE – throughout Fall 2024 we are surrounded by roadworks, but accessible. Please check our Visit page for driving directions Dennis Haggerty – Various Small Envelopes September 7 - December 14, 2024 Michael Morgan – Locust Leap Summer 2024 - Ongoing Near Dwellers as Urbanites Friday May 3 - September 28 Work by Jesse Garbe and Doug LaFortune. Near Dwellers as Urbanites – Peter S. Alagona in conversation with artists Jesse Garbe and Doug LaFortune Saturday, October 19th, 2024 11am – 12:30 pm Pacific 2 – 3:30 pm Eastern 7 – 8:30 pm GMT Connect via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86897677380 The Near Dwellers series includes online discussion sessions in connection with each of its parts. |
About us: Developed as an evolution of a family real estate business and founded in 2011, Street Road Artists' Space hosts projects that relate directly to the problematic, capital-driven activity which produced its possibility. Challenges to received wisdom about private property ownership, especially how this relates to social relationships, are the focus.
Located at the crossroads of Street Road and Gap Newport Pike (Routes 926 and 41), our name adopts the richly textured toponym by which we are located: etymologically 'Street Road' derives from the Roman ‘via strata’, or ‘paved road’, thus encoding histories of human-land intertwinings, particularly human impulses to map, posess, and constrain the earth. The 5-acre site comprises outdoor works, many ongoing, an exhibition space in a renovated 1930s cottage, and occasional projects in two other on-site buildings - an abandoned former mushroom house and an industrial pole barn. In an area that lies between rural farmland, Amish country, horse country, land preservation efforts, towns impoverished by big-box proliferation, and encroaching suburbanization growing out from the cities of Philadelphia, Wilmington and Lancaster, Street Road is a laboratory for the consideration of humans’ multiplicitous relationships with land - past, current and future. Street Road's archive of area real estate transactions, 1970s - early 2000s.
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